Do You Eat the Skin?
 

Skin I eat:

Potato

Skin I don't eat:

Everything else.

How about you?

Tomato. Apple. Peach. Pear. Grape. Basically all non-citrus fruits.

Sausage skin, unless too tough. Chicharrones.

No skin off my nose.;)

Yes.

crunchy filipino lechon and the crackling atop a german roast pork being two of my favorites.

Do You Eat the Skin?
 

When younger I would usually eat the skin on chicken if it was crunchy or on fried chicken. But, have taken it off for the last 20+ years since it is not so healthy.

True but but the skin has all the flavor. Might as well eat tofu. Everything in moderation.

Fried chicken skin and pork crackling are great condiments to porridge. A lot of flavour to something bland!

I generally eat skin. Salmon skin is great if seared enough to give it some crunch!

I love any skin but it must be crisp. Soggy chicken skin is disgusting.

Okay, some of those are just to tough too remove, although as a toddler I'm told I insisted my father remove skin from grapes before I would eat them. Come to think of it, if someone would do that for me sixty years later, I wouldn't turn it down.

Some of the skins I won't eat:

sweet potato, cucumber, apple, chicken, eggplant, turnip.

Some of the skins nobody eats (correct me if I'm wrong):

banana (although I did try smoking it in the 60's - thank you Donavan), winter squash.

+1

I love crispy roast pork skin, crispy salmon skin. Roast chicken/turkey/duck doesn't need to be crispy, but I'll take it as long as it's not too soggy. The skin is where all the flavors and seasonings are cooked in.

I'm getting a hankerin' for Peking Duck...:p

Salmon skin sushi rolls FTW

;)

Popeye's Chicken and McDonalds Chicken Nuggets --- remove the skin/crispy off both, make separate pile, admire pile, eat pile, throw away the rest away.

Which pile?

The "nuggets" are composed of a large percentage of chicken skin, while the breading on nuggets is just breading....

My eat pile is all skin and crispy.

I didn't know that about the "nugget" inerts, though. I might start eating those too.

Exactly...but crisp skin? The best part!!!

Best part about SE Asia, you can easily get fried or grilled to crispy skins of fish, pork and chicken.

My father-in-law tried eating avocado, skin and all, the first time he had one. It's one of the great family lore stories.

I eat the skin on chicken most of the time, as long as it is fried. I don't eat fried chicken a lot, so I figure it is ok.

What people do find strange about my eating habits is that when I eat fried fish like cod, I remove the batter and don't eat it. I can't stand fried fish batter/tempura.

I remove the fish batter too sometimes. Potato skin is usually ok.

I can stand fish batter when it is done right. Too many times it is not edible but makes a great covering to cook the fish and I remove the batter.

Oh my yes. If it's on a meat or a potato I'll eat it. Especially crispy duck skin.

I do not like apple skins unless the apple is cut into pieces though...I prefer not to use my front teeth to eat an apple I guess.

Fruit skins fine potato skins too....

Current trend for serving crispy fish or chicken skin - complete no! I've never eaten chicken or fish skin and have no intention of starting now!

Caveat: I'm strict vegetarian, so I'm not talking meat or egg skins ;-)

I eat virtually everything, minus canteloupe, watermelon, banana, coconut, durian, orange, pomegranate, pineapple, a couple varieties of squash. (...and things that I've forgotten). I'm also "game" to eat the cores/centers on fruits and vegetables, other than pits, like olives.

I don't eat avocados, period.

I think much depends on preparation. For instance, give me chargrilled fish and I will almost always eat the skin (bar a few species like swordfish and shark which have a rather leathery skin). But if it is in sauce or steamed I will leave it off as it gets a bit soggy.

Great batter I'll eat too but most batter I won't.

Sausage: natural skin yes, plasticky stuff, no way!

One of the trickiest one is cheese rind - hundreds of types and different choices, that would deserve a thread in its own right! ;)

I'm all about eating chicken and pork skin. These days, I have to fight my 6 year-old daughter for the chicken skin. I should be proud of her...but it gets competitive, so there are mixed feelings.

Pork skin I like even when it's not crunchy...as long as it's been braised long enough. Think Japanes Buta no Kakuni or French Petit Sale...it's luscious.

I generally don't eat animal skins but do eat all fruit/vegetable skins.

love these.

Turkey skin is about the only one I don't eat.

I don't eat deep fried chicken ('cept for chicken wings at a bar) but I do like to make pan seared and then roasted chicken at home. The other night I pan seared and oven roasted in the cast iron pan some jerk spice rubbed & apple cider vinegar marinated chicken thighs to put over a vegetable & couscous salad. The skin, which is minimal, was crisp and flavorful. I make this once or twice a month.

I can only eat thin skinned fruits because of a digestive disorder but I love empire apples and will eat fresh tomatoes like they're an apple or pop cherry tomatoes like they're candy.

Not a huge fan of seared fish skin.

Yes. Especially on Peaking Duck, and Schweinshaxe :D

Oddly enough, my 9 year old just told me yesterday that European immigrants to the United States way back in the day would eat bananas, peel and all, being unfamiliar with it and not knowing that it was generally discarded.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the kiwi yet? I always eat the kiwi skin, but it seems to horrify most other people. I guess because it's furry?

I used to do that too...rubbed it until the fur was off, then ate it with skin. I wonder why I stopped? :confused:

Fuzzy skin is the worst. I can't handle peach fuzz. Can't imagine putting a whole kiwi in my mouth.

Thought I'd stumbled into the Match.com thread for a minute....

Pork scratchings.
Delicious.

Japanese Yakitori Kawa (BBQ Chicken skin)

It is so tasty and each time I eat it, I can hear my doctor cringe and I feel I have committed a grave sin.

Can't stop at just one skewer.

You must have mistaken this for hottentots.com ;)

I eat trout and steelhead skin, but not salmon skin. Perch, walleye, grouper and sea bass skin yes; tuna, opah and cod skin no.

I love chicken skin if it's crispy, but occasionally will bypass it for health concerns (and right now I'm pescatorian in any event). Pork cracklings are the bomb. Skins of other critters - not my thing.

Cucumbers, tomatoes, peaches, apples, grapes, white potatoes, summer squash, peppers - all yes. Sweet potatoes no (and I really don't much care for sweet potatoes, but will eat them for health reasons only).

Watermelon no, but I do like to eat much further into the rind than most people do.

If you were to ask me what I'd choose for my last meal, I might pick fried chicken with skin on (preferring Popeyes' spicy version to all others) with steak-fried potatoes (skins on, natch) and watermelon for dessert. Accompanied by Chateau Lafite, of course.

I ate the worm.

Skin that I'll eat...

Apple, Tomato, Kiwi (on occasion), Potato (but I prefer not to). That's all I can think of off the top of my head.

I wont...

Anything else. I hate chicken skin especially.